Issue #25 – June 2025. Welcome back to the Nintendo Life Mailbox. You are now living in a post-Switch 2-release world. Having fun? It’s been a whirlwind month for Nintendo fans, with a brand new console to busy ourselves with! Consequently, penning missives to us at NL Towers hasn’t been top of your list, it…
For the last four years, the hottest mapping event in the retro FPS scene has been the Quake Brutalist Jam. Here, mapmakers enthralled by id Software’s 1996 shooter have gathered to honour architecture’s moodiest style, constructing levels designed to evoke its austere, concrete minimalism. The first Brutalist Jam occurred in 2022, spawning 35 maps that…
Gear of the Year (Image credit: Future) Check out more of the year’s best tech in our PC Gamer Hardware Awards 2025 coverage. This year has been a bit of a weird one for gaming handhelds. AMD’s mighty Strix Halo chip launched at CES, yet it’s too power hungry and hot to see its inclusion…
Tradition holds once again and the yearly Minecraft mob vote returns so that we can have an all out social media brawl over which creature gets added to Minecraft next. Mojang has now officially revealed all three of our mob choices for this year: the crab, penguin, and armadillo, and the voting time frame. We’ll…
If you’ve been playing Alan Wake 2 you may have noticed just how pretty that game is. I’d go as far to say it’s the best looking videogame of 2023. Developer Remedy has done incredibly well to make what could’ve been a very dull and dark world look vibrant and detailed, and has since divulged…
Given the way the AI industry is going these days, the following news probably isn’t a huge surprise. But it’s unnerving all the same. Announced in a new blog post, Anthropic, arguably the sole remaining example among the major AI players that really bigs up its safety responsibilities, has ditched its core commitment to “pause”…
Category: ID@Xbox April 24, 2026 Star Fire: Eternal Cycle – Hot Tips to Navigate the Fast-Paced Roguelite Action Jensen, producer at Ethereal Fish Studio Summary Out now with full Xbox Play Anywhere support. Side-scrolling roguelite mixing precision combat with randomized skill progression. Tips for optimizing 11 elemental types, multiple weapons, unlockable skins, and more. Hey…
Side-talkin’ for two decades. Nokia’s N-Gage is now 20 years old. Released in 2003, the device was seen as a rival to the Game Boy Advance. Boasting powerful hardware and the ability to make phone calls, send text messages and access the internet, many predicted that it would steal away market share from Nintendo thanks…
Monster Hunter I & Chokkan Crash Bandicoot are now both preserved in some form. The feature phone preservation community has done it again, preventing a further two “previously lost” games for Japanese mobile phones from being lost forever. This time around, according to RockmanCosmo, it’s the turn of the 2006 Monster Hunter spin-off Monster Hunter…